Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler noted in her Medium blog post that "Given the volume of interest in Bakkt and work required to get all of the pieces in place, we will now be targeting January 24, 2019 for our launch to ensure that our participants are ready to trade on Day 1."

She also shared that Bakkt has “insurance for bitcoin in cold storage” and is currently in the process of “securing insurance for the warm wallet within the Bakkt Warehouse architecture,” adding that “new features” will be shared in the upcoming weeks.

That will just bring new miners on board. The difficulty is going down when miners are leaving. Bitcoin is much more successful than ever imagined by Satoshi. It is not build to the heavy use. That is why I'm pretty sure ETH will be the preferred coin.

That will just bring new miners on board. The difficulty is going down when miners are leaving. Bitcoin is much more successful than ever imagined by Satoshi. It is not build to the heavy use. That is why I'm pretty sure ETH will be the preferred coin.

The firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at a court in the Eastern District of Washington on Monday, revealing that it still owes its biggest 20 unsecured creditors nearly $7 million in court documents.

Giga Watt has estimated assets worth less than $50,000, whereas estimated liabilities are in the range of $10–50 million, according to the court documents.

No doubt the recent battle with the Bitcoin cash fork has been hard to the crypto market. We all know that this year has been terrible, but we also know that crypto is here to stay so the it's only a matter of time before things turn.

As I said if miners leave the difficulty will fall for PoW and the network will continue running.